System and method to provide interactive, user-customized content to touch-free terminals
AssigneeSophatar, Inc.
InventorBart DECANNE
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Abstract
A method of displaying content to a user within a managed space comprised of one or more touch-free interactive kiosks includes collecting user data about the user. In addition, the plurality of touch-free interactive kiosks are configured to uniquely identify users located at the kiosk. Based on the identified user, and collected user data associated with the user, content is selected to be displayed to the user.
Claims30
A method of displaying content to a user within a managed space that includes one or more kiosks for displaying content, the method comprising:
- collecting user data about the user;
- identifying the user at one of the plurality of kiosks;
- selecting content to display to the user based on the collected user data;
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- displaying the selected content to the identified user at the kiosk at which the user is located.
The method of claim 3, wherein the identifying information assigned to the user includes a visual cue card distributed by the sign-in station and associated with the user. The method of claim 4, wherein the identifying the user at one of the kiosk includes making a request to the user at the kiosk to display the assigned visual cue card, and analyzing image data captured by the kiosk to identify the visual cue card assigned to the user.
A system for displaying content to one or more users within a managed space, the system comprising:
- a plurality of touch-free interactive kiosks located within the managed space that each operate to identify users in close proximity to the kiosks and display content selected for the identified user;
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- a central database that stores content to be selectively distributed to the plurality of touch-free interactive kiosks, and collected user information and identifying information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.